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03068aam a2200481 i 4500 001 FD73C59001FF11EF957CDDF153ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240424010045 008 231206s2024 nyua 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023039813 020 $a 166800898X 020 $a 9781668008980 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny $a n-us--- $a n-us-ny 050 14 $a PS3619.K54 $b M57 2024 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20231207 100 1 $a Skeslien Charles, Janet, $e author. 245 10 $a Miss Morgan's book brigade : $b a novel / $c Janet Skeslien Charles. 250 $a First Atria Books hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Atria Books, $c 2024. 300 $a 318 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsessive research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York's famed library, but she has no idea that their paths will converge in surprising ways across time. Based on the extraordinary little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire, The Librarians of Rue de Picardie) is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women librarians $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Carson, Jessie, $d 1876-1959 $v Fiction. 610 20 $a American Committee for Devastated France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Civilian relief $z France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Americans $z France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children's libraries $z France $v Fiction. 610 20 $a New York Public Library $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Authors $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Skeslien Charles, Janet. $t Miss Morgan's book brigade $b First Atria Books hardcover edition. $d New York : Atria Books, 2024 $z 9781668009000 $w (DLC) 2023039814 941 $a 7 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509012801.0 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20240508010229.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20240503011930.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20240502014716.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240502011809.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010555.0 952 $l HHPC765 $d 20240424010052.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FD73C59001FF11EF957CDDF153ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search